Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
There is not much information to find about Mory other then he was a fetish artist who illustrated for Irving Klaw. His style is easily identified by the oversized rope in his bondage. His art was shown in magazines such as Bondage Photo Treasures, a bondage magazine published by Harmony…
Sadie Maso (sometimes spelled Sadie Mazo) remains one of the most fascinating figures in the underground world of 1930s–1950s French erotic illustration. Sadie was a pseudonym, likely belonging to a man (though I’d love it if a real femme fatale had been behind that pen) and worked in the shadows…
Lushé, an enigmatic figure from the 1930s, is shrouded in mystery with no verifiable details of birth or death. Known for provocative sketches of women in bondage, his work appeared in a 1972 anthology. Recent findings of signed pieces attributed to a possible Polish émigré add to his legend without concrete proof.
René Lelong (c. 1871–1933) taught at the Académie Julian, exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, and painted sunlit élégantes for the covers of Femina and L’Illustration. His posters promised perfume and promenades; his brush traced parasols and parasail skirts with the soft precision of a society portraitist.In 1899, under…
The pseudonym Marilac was used by Italian artists Mario Laboccetta (1899 – 1988) for who I was unable to find a proper bio in English. So I tried to translate from Italian. He was born in Naples and became famous in Paris. During the 1920/1930’s he worked as illustrator for…
Swiss Jimm (1918 – 1964) is a pseudonym for a Swiss/French Artist, referred to as ‘Swiss Jim’ (so this artist might not be confused with the other ‘German’ Jim)He also used the pseudonym Gil. There is nearly nothing known for this artist, a collector knew he was originally from Geneva,…